After proof reading, Matthew has realized that toki pona is easier to understand in the third person (more "li" particles to separate noun phrase from verb phrase) and he will from now on refer to himself in the third person until people throw kili jelo at him.

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Our "life" is simply what we perceive; everything we see, hear, taste, smell, feel, dream, think of... is a part of our life. Then - my life is a sum of [my] everything. But I doubt if a VERB "to live" can be expressed just by "ale".

After proof reading, Matthew has realized that toki pona is easier to understand in the third person (more "li" particles to separate noun phrase from verb phrase) and he will from now on refer to himself in the third person until people throw kili jelo at him.

No subordinate clauses in tp of the "because I want..." sort. You need a separate sentence: ' mi wile e mani. tan ni la ..."As jan Ote says, "Too many capital letters" 'ilo pi nanpa mute pi sona mute' is probably overspecification "device of many numbers of much knowledge." In most contexts, we get the point with just 'ilo sona' or some such (never mind about literal accuracy).

The relation between the final prep, phrase and the initial 'la' slot has been discussed a bit, without anything being fixed. I tend to think of them as separate but loosely related in some cases. Here is a nice case: if you mean "I like ancient music" ("Ancient music is pleasing to me"), then ,kalama musi pi tenpo pini mute li pona tawa mi' seems right. But, if you mean the somewhat slightly different "In my opinion, ancient music is good," I would go with 'mi la kalama musi pi tenpo pini mute li pona.' And similarly for the rest. If the distinction makes any sense (or difference) at all.I would have though 'taso' rather than 'kin la' since Emilie Autumn doesn't seem to me like ancient music -- or do you means (earlier on) that you like many songs of the (possibly recent) past?

A name is not a movie: 'nimi ona li nimi "Avatar" [Apata]' Similarly 'ona li nimi e nimi "Na'vi"' (or just ' ona li toki Nawapi') (or some such tpization -- Lord knows what "Na'vi" is supposed to sound like). I have mixed anticipations about this -- check with me Thursday, when I may get to see it. I like the people in it and the basic idea, but the buzz is distinctly unfavorable about the realization.

'sike suno' is "year" or some related notion, not "day," which is 'tenpo suno' (ambiguous, as usual, between 24 hours and daylight ). 'lape e x' means "puts x to sleep" I think you are shooting for "Every day, I sleep again" 'tenpo suno ali la mi lape sin' (at a guess). How to say "eight hours out of 24", or "one third of each day" or similar just goes beyond what tp can do with numbers at this point (the oldest and most persistent tp question, here raised in a new form), but I expect it goes into the 'la' slot when we figure out what it is. Ditto for your cat (where did you get such an active one?). So, also, lose the 'e' in the last two sentences.

The number of jan pi moku kasi taso is growing. Kinkajoos are said to be tough and rather vile, so we can skip them altogether. I like 'kin mute' for "etc."; another step in the development of that word and an answer to the a problem, which got by with 'en sama ante' before. 'pali moku' for "cook, prepare food" is nice too.

'nasin' alone for "religion, philosophy" and the like, is probably pushing it a bit. OK here though (obviously). Is nasin JuJu , UU or Joojoo? The former seems more likely given the rest. "Teh of Piglet" - de is always harder than dao, since it seems possible to say something meaningful about it (though it turns out you can't either).

or 'nimi pi pakala mute' but actually not all that bad and not that many either.

After proof reading, Matthew has realized that toki pona is easier to understand in the third person (more "li" particles to separate noun phrase from verb phrase) and he will from now on refer to himself in the third person until people throw kili jelo at him.